While stating this here today, a spokesman of the Education Department said that four to 20 computers had been provided to each of about 1,089 Government Senior Secondary Schools under Free Computer Education Programme introduced by the State Government in the year 2007. Free computer education was being provided in these schools through two service providers, namely M/s NICT and M/s Educomp Solution Ltd.

The service providers had provided two faculties in these schools for teaching basic IT education to students from Class VI to XII and computer education as per syllabus of the Board of School Education, Haryana for those students who have opted for computer education as an optional subject, he added.

The spokesman said that the State Government had also introduced Model Sanskriti Schools in the State to improve the standard of education. As many as 20 Model Sanskriti Senior Secondary Schools, one in each district had been set up by upgrading infrastructure and other facilities in one existing Senior Secondary School. Now the scheme had been modified and the infrastructure of 213 existing Government Senior Secondary Schools having more than 100 students in 10 plus one and 10 plus two  classes were being strengthened by providing necessary funds.

A sum of Rs two crore had been provided

Source: www.indianews.org.in Free Computer Education To The School Students In Haryana

The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) have collectively swept the second Hindustan Times Best B-schools in India Survey, which was carried out in collaboration with TNS India.

The top three spots were taken by IIM-A, IIM-B and IIM-C, respectively. No great surprise there. But two other IIMs -Lucknow and Indore -which have long operated under the shadow of the ABC, as the top three are called, clocked in at #5 and #7, respectively.

So, there are four IIMs among the top 5 and five among the top 10. The Indian School of Business, which has made great strides since opening shop a little over a decade ago, was ranked fourth, the only nonIIM brand in the top 5.

This perception-based sur vey, of 547 B-school stakeholders like faculty, current students, alumni, recruiters and MBA aspirants was carried out in July (for details of how we did it, turn to Page 2 of HT Horizons).

In an interesting finding, the HT survey found that western India has emerged as the hub of management education in India. As many as four of India's Top 10 and nine of the Top 20 Bschools are located in that region. And now for the really good news, at least for wannabe MBAs: In yet more evidence that India Inc has put the last year's slowdown firmly behind, the high-flying, big money jobs are back on campus.

Did you know? Western India has four of India's Top 10 and nine of the nation's Top 20 B-schools, according to the second Hindustan Times Best B-schools in India Survey, which was carried out in collaboration with TNS India. The north is next best; it has two of India's top 10 and five of its Top 20 business schools. The south and east each have two institutes in the first category and three in the second.

Source: Hindustan Times By Arnab Mitra Survey Findings-- IIMs Still The Best, West Is B-School Hub

"We have brought qualitative changes in the system from primary to higher education in our state. In the coming five to seven years, you will see Haryana becoming an education hub of the country," he said at a press conference in New Delhi.

There are now 78 government colleges in different parts of Haryana and about 3 lakh students are getting education in various streams, he said, adding India's first defence university is set to open in Gurgaon.

Apart from this, four private universities including OP Jindal Global University in Sonepat, five deemed universities including Maharishi Markeshwar University and some 96 private aided colleges are running in the state, he said.

"National Institute of Design, which is in Ahmedabad, is also coming to open its branch in the state. Location is being identified for setting up the institute," he said.

Speaking about the state's economic growth, Hooda said "We had a total industrial investment of Rs40,000 crore up to March since 1966. Now, it is Rs53,000 crore on ground and (industrial) investment of over Rs one lakh crore is in the pipeline."

Till 2005, the FDI in the state was Rs3,500 crore and now it is Rs9,277 crore, which is almost three times. The per capital income in the state has reached Rs77,871 at the rate of current price, he added.

Elaborating on the decision, Mohinder Singh, chairman and CEO, Noida Authority, said that experts have studied the social development of the city and "arrived at the conclusion that the inclusion of residents, who have suffered during the urbanisation and development process, is necessary".

This is one of the major steps taken by the state government to pacify farmers, who were up in arms against them. The agitators, who lost their properties in the acquisition spree, had been demanding that the government reserve a significant portion of seats for their children in local schools be it private or government. "We lease out land at subsidised rates so schools can benefit the society. The reform has been welcomed by many," the chairman added.

Of the 75 per cent seats reserved for Noida residents, 10 per cent has been kept aside for the children of farmers, whose properties were acquired.

The GBTU has received the nod from the All India Council For Technical Education (AICTE) for the purpose and now is all set to hold counseling for candidates wishing to study engineering, management, pharmacy and M Tech studies in the evening. The counseling would be held from September 3 to 7 through which admission would be offered for B Tech, M Tech, B Pharma and MBA courses.

Though the GBTU initially had some reservations about implementing the evening-class concept, however after the state government firmly told the university to go ahead with the exercise in the interest of the students, the university agreed. Colleges that would offer evening B Tech include Azad Engineering College, Lucknow, PSIT and KIT in Kanpur, Greater Noida Institute of Technology, Greater Noida, HR Institute of Technology, Ghaziabad, Bhagwant Institute of Technology, Muzaffarnagar, BBD College of Ghaziabad, Hi Tech Institute of Engineering and Technology, Ghaziabad, Shambhunath Institute of Technology Allahabad. Colleges offering evening M Tech course are IEC Greater Noida and Azad Engineering College, Lucknow. The HR Institute of Technology Ghaziabad would also be offering B Pharma course in the evening shift. Besides, several colleges would also offer MBA course in the evening. The evening timings are yet to be decided.

Apart from printed posters, the DUSU election code of conduct banned use of photocopied material, stickers and hand pamphlets to leave little scope for violation of the code of conduct. It also banned use of vehicles, loudspeakers, animals and musical instruments.

Student organizations like Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and National Students Union of India (NSUI) are now banking on alternate mode of campaigning. Media coordinator of ABVP, Aditya Jha, said, ``We have never used printed poster before 2000. We are a cadrebased organization. We were forced to use printed posters because of our rivals. But we are now campaigning through SMS, blogs, social networking sites and will also use the DU community radio service as well as the DUSU website.''

NSUI too is banking on technology this year. While use of social networking sites, SMS and blogs has been a part of elections for a few years, DUSU elections might see their optimum use this year. NSUI media coordinator, Bharat Kumar, said, ``This year's DUSU elections would be fought on the internet and through SMS.''

Other student organizations like AISF and DISHA are seeing this as an opportunity to improve performance in the elections. Due to rejection of nominations of many NSUI and ABVP candidates last year, the left-backed organizations like AISF, AISA, SFI as well as DISHA managed to increase their vote share.

Prof. K. Subramanian, Director, Advanced Centre for Informatics and Innovative Learning (ACIIL), IGNOU, said that the collaboration will create a platform for the students aspiring to study at I2IT. Further, he said that the joint venture is the right step to stimulate developing India to become a developed nation.

IGNOU-I2IT Centre of Excellence for Advanced Education and Research offers full-time, face-to-face Postgraduate (PG) and Research programmes in Advanced Scientific/Technology, and Management areas. The institution will be a center of excellent for imparting high-end skills and certification for teachers in various engineering colleges, management schools, and institutes in India.

The collaboration is the need of the 21st Century. The University sources said that the coalition with I2IT will pave the way in assuring and delivering high quality professional/technical education in India.

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The 2010 CWG, the biggest sporting event to be held in India, are being held in New Delhi Oct 3-14 this year.

Haryana had earlier announced that Oct 14 will be observed as a public holiday in the Gurgaon district in view of the closing ceremony of the CWG.

State Chief Secretary Urvashi Gulati said the Haryana government has decided to observe Oct 14 as a public holiday in all its public offices, including educational institutional, boards and corporations, situated within the limits of Gurgaon.

While disclosing this here today, the Education Minister, Mrs Geeta Bhukkal said that out of these proposals, nine reputed private institutions had already been allotted plots to set up their educational institutions in the Rajiv Gandhi Education City.

She said that Rs 11,000 million would be spent on the development works in the Rajiv Gandhi Education City. The development works were going on in full swing in the Education City. Works like providing water supply lines, sewerage system, development of roads and storm water disposal system including construction of boundary wall were expected to be completed shortly.

Education City was being developed on the strength of five pillars- people, research, trades-technology, transition and globalisation, said Mrs Bhukkal adding that people were the source of human capital. The City would act as a hub for higher learning and centre for research in cutting edge technologies, such as- Nano Technology, Bio Technology and Genetics. It would provide quality education in the State by attracting reputed domestic and international institutions for higher learning and expert academicians in various disciplines. Of the total seats, 25 per cent would be reserved for the students of Haryana.

Source: www.indianews.org.in 31 World Class Institution Interested In Rajiv Gandhi Education City At Kundli

While stating this today, Finance Minister Capt Ajay Singh Yadav said that the land for the college has been transferred to the Higher Education Department. He expressed his gratitude to the Chief Minister for granting approval to set up this girl's college over an area of 69 kanal 18 marla. He also thanked the gram panchayat, Kharkara for providing the land to the Education Department at the rate of Rs. one per acre for a period of 33 years.

The Finance Minister said that the southern Haryana was emerging as an education hub. A Central University was being set up in Mahendragarh district and Defence University was being set up at Binola in district Gurgaon. Apart from this, Haryana Government had also setup a Post Graduate Regional Centre of Mahrishi Dayanand University, Rohtak at Meerpur in Rewari over 100 acres of land and recently government had released Rs. seven crore for undertaking construction work in this regional centre. Sainik School was also being set up at Pali Gothra in district Rewari at a cost of Rs. 25 crore and Haryana government had also recently released Rs. five crore, he added.

Capt Yadav said that a Central School had also been sanctioned at village Bhakli in Rewari district and the classes for the same had already been started. He further said that a government girl's college had been setup at Rewari and village Gorawra to cater to the needs of the girls of the southern Haryana. He said that similarly a law college had been set up and efforts were on to set up a university in southern Haryana.